CRESTA Website Relaunch

In conjunction with the 2019 release, CRESTA announced the launch of its new website. The site features a state-of-the-art web application that includes map visualisation and querying tools. It also provides CRESTA Zone lists for 2010, 2013 and 2019 CRESTA releases as well as mapping tables which allow users to aggregate high-resolution to low-resolution CRESTA Zones. All of this information is available through the CRESTA Map Viewer BETA on app.cresta.org. Updated geodata files have been produced by GfK with whom CRESTA maintains a longstanding and successful partnership.

Overview of CRESTA Map Viewer BETA functionality:

• Search: covers CRESTA Zone names and identifiers plus 4.5m places worldwide
• Map viewer: Includes different base maps and overlays. Display of country and low-resolution CRESTA Zones. Border for a single high-resolution Zone can be viewed as well. Suitable for looking up CRESTA Zone for specific locations (e. g. insurance risks)
• Zone lists per country and release: contain also mapping of low- and high-resolution zones
• Mapping tables between CRESTA releases and schemes (low- and high resolution)
• Location encoding: convenient copy-paste functionality for longitude/latitude coordinates. Matching CRESTA Zones displayed on map and available for download
• Archive: previous release notes per country

Details on the website functionality can be found in the help section. CRESTA plans to enhance the Map Viewer BETA with additional functionality in the coming months. Feedback is welcome.